[MLB-WIRELESS] Microtik 200mW Wireless cards for $125USD

[Tony Langdon, VK3JED]

At 09:09 PM 16/07/2002 +1000, Andrew Dean wrote:

> > This may not be quite true, if the card's RX is poor then the
> > additional TX isn't of much use, as it will send much further
> > (reducing reuse) while being able to "hear" much shorter distances...
>
>Sure, but if you use 2 of these cards @ 200mW they can "PUSH" the signal 
>further hence they don't need as much receive sens ? which would make them 
>even better than say 2 cisco cards :)

Nope.  If they can't hear the other end, they're useless.  The Ciscos would 
probably outform them by a good stretch in an AP setup.

>Fair enough i understand how a antenna with gain works both ways, helps 
>pick up a weaker signal etc... but hadn't heard about the higher output 
>could  limit the useable signal....

That's because you are more limited in the amount of antenna gain you can 
use, which means there's less gain to assist the Rx side.

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